¹ And Jacob lifted·​·up his eyes, and saw, and behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men^◦. And he halved the children over to Leah, and over to Rachel, and over to the two handmaids.

² And he set the handmaids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind.

³ And he^◦ himself passed·​·on before them, and bowed· himself ·down to^▫ the earth seven times^◦, until he approached, even·​·to his brother.

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

⁵ And he lifted·​·up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these to thee? And he said, The children with whom God has graced thy servant.

⁶ And the handmaids approached, they^◦ and their children, and they bowed· themselves ·down.

⁷ And Leah also and her children approached, and they bowed· themselves ·down; and afterwards Joseph and Rachel approached, and bowed· themselves ·down.

⁸ And he said, Who to thee are all these camps whom I encounter? And he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord.

⁹ And Esau said, I have^◦ much, my brother; be to thee what is to thee.

¹⁰ And Jacob said, No, I pray^◦, if, I pray^◦, I have found grace in thine eyes, then take my gift^◦ from my hand; for because that I have seen thy faces as seeing the faces of God, and thou hast been·​·well·​·pleased with me.

¹¹ Take, I pray^◦, my blessing that is brought to thee; because^◦ God has been·​·gracious·​·to me, and because^◦ I have^◦ all. And he urged him, and he took it.

¹² And he said, Let us journey and go, and I will go in·​·front·​·of thee.

¹³ And he said to^▵ him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flock and the herd with me are sucklings^◦, and if they push· them ·on in one day, then all the flock will·​·die.

¹⁴ Let my lord, I pray^◦, cross·​·over before his servant, and I^◦ will proceed^* slowly as·​·to the foot steps of the work^▵* that is before me, and to the foot steps of the children, until I come to^▵ my lord to^▫ Seir.

¹⁵ And Esau said, Let me now^◦ place^◦ with thee some from the people who are with^◦ me. And he said, Why is this? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord.

¹⁶ And Esau returned in that^◦ day to his way, to^▫ Seir.

¹⁷ And Jacob journeyed to^▫ Succoth, and built for himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.

¹⁸ And Jacob came to Salem^*, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Paddan-aram, and encamped to the faces of the city.

¹⁹ And he bought the part of the field, where^▵ he had stretched·​·out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred kesitah.

²⁰ And he set·​·up there an altar, and he called it El-Elohe-Israel.